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Comment · 2 months ago
Incoherent and far too long .

Lists a bunch of things .

Fails to make any clear points .

Fails to give real reasons for the few claims it makes .

Comment · 4 months ago
Good to see a whole genre of scam artists and their books being displaced.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Rogue nation.

North Korea behaves better.

Comment · 4 months ago
Donald wins.

Donald silently gets 10% of any deal money.

Comment · 4 months ago
Some books deserve to be banned.

I would put Kevin MacDonald's antisemitic trilogy The Culture of Critique, the Turner Diaries ( which calls for mass extermination of non-white groups in the USA ) and Mein Kampf in the realm of books that should be shunned.

Comment · 4 months ago
Beggars cant be choosers.

She would rather have done corporate law but did not have the academic credentials or the networks needed for a job at the likes of Latham Watkins or White and Case.

Still it is good for society that criminals get the worst lawyers to defend them.

Comment · 4 months ago
"EPUB is an amazing open standard for ebooks, and yet so many implementations of it are just fundamentally flawed, all in the name of keeping IP lawyers happy."

Easy to be dismissive, but IP violations can cost a large company hundreds of millions.

IP lawyers are more important to many companies than their software developers.

If you doubt that, check to see who gets paid more...

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